Behavior Quote by Robert Sapolsky

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

— Brian Greene

“It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are…

— Stephen Hawking

I used to very politely say that if there is free will then it's in all sorts of boring places, like whether you're going…

— Robert Sapolsky

As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a…

— Scott Westerfeld

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

— Richard Dawkins

In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up.…

— Joel Kinnaman

“It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one hand, we can't make sense of it…

— Sam Harris

[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Recent experiments in neuroscience support the view that it is our physical brain, following the known laws of science, that determines our actions, and…

— Stephen Hawking

Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.

— Christopher Hitchens

Free will is an empty term.

— John Calvin

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which…

— Swami Vivekananda